The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-03-18

LOOK AT THE HEAD-oEAR OF SOME
PROMINENT PUBLIC MEN.

The hats of many of the statesmen,
writes the Washington correspondent
of the Utica IN. W Observer, will
give one an index to certain Of their
characteristics, and il he will look the
man over from heel to crown he can
tell as much about him from his dress
as from his physiognomy Take Pres
ident Cleveland and note the way he
wears his tall round silk hat crowded
down upon his eyes in the most deter
mined way imaginable and you can
see indomitable will shining out
through his head-gear. Ex-Attorney
General Brewster's white silk plugs
with their nap an inch long show him
to be the fussy old-style gentleman Of
the past.
Secretary Whitney is called by some
the dude of the Cabinet. His hat is a
broad brimmed silk one of the latest
style. 1t is covered with a mourning
band, and he wears it well down upon
his distinguished head. Secretary
Endicott also wears silk hat, but his
New England head makes it look as
cold as Massachusetts, and it has not
the air of good-fellowship of Garland's
slouch nor Postmaster General Villas
high hat. Bsyard wears pearl gray
tile in the summer, and a stylish silk
one in the winter. His hats, like his
dress are always immaculate.
One of the queerest hats in Wash
ington is that of Civil-Service Com
missioner Edgerton. 1t is a straight,
broad brimmed silk plug Of the vintage
of l849, and the picture of Edgerton
as he walks the streets of Washington
is that of an elegantly dressed states
man of Jackson's day. Fe says be
finds he is in style about every ten
years, and that hatters keep the same
blocks aud bring out the same style
about so often.
Chace, of Rhode Island, the Quaker
Senator, wears broad brim, and the
cut of his coat is after the style of the
Society of Friends. Price, Arthur's
Indian Commissioner, wore an ex-
treme hat of this kind, but he usually
had it made of felt rather than black
silk.
Senator Ingalls is one of the best
dressed men in Washington, and his
black silk head-gear is the envy of his
brother Senators. l saw him the other
night, and he had come out for the
first time in fur cap. 1t was a tall
one of the finest seslskin, and with In
gals long overcoat, reaching to his
feet, it made him look like a Russian
Count in the depth of winter. Joe
Mcdonald has been wearing fur cap
this winter, and he has laid aside his
statesman's plug for the summer sea-
son.
Speaking of the statesman's style of
wearing his hat, Senator Evarts is said
to have it to perfection, and, indeed,
there are those who say he is the
author of the style. 1t is to my mind
a very poor style, and it consists of
balancing the hat on the back of the
head so that if the wearer has bangs
they will show forth in all their beauty.
Evarts never wears his black silk rat
in any other way. Senator Payne
covers b is head after the same fashion.
Dan VOORHEES, wears silk plug, and
he has one OF the largest heads in the
Senate. His hat is 7s in size. He
always keeps it well brushed, and he
has great many hats presented him.
He is ford of betting hats with his |
friends during the elections, and he wins
from two to four during every cam
paign.
Senator Sherman wears tall hat, |
we'll brushed. Philetus Sawyer, short |
and fat, covers bis bald head with a |
lerby, and his colleague. John G. |
Spooner, wears SLOUGH, and don't ap-
pear to care whether school keeps or |
not
Senator Vest wears black SLOUGH,
which he pulls down over his eyes,
him look very belligerent as he
walks about the hotelsj and another
nan of this same style is Representa-
i've Joe Cannon, of Illinois, who often
,as the air of the bad man from Bitter
,reek.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
covers his big gray head with black |
ierby, and M. .. Butler wears jaunty
brown felt of the same style as that of |
Don Cameron. Leland Stanford wears
tall, black silk tile, and his income is
arge enough to give him a dollar bill
'very month for every hair under 1t.